Memories of Emperor Napoleon (ePub)

The author of this small book, Elizabeth Balkomb (1802 - 1871), the daughter of the general representative of the East India Company on St. Helena, presented an incredible gift to fate. In the fall of 1815 - then she was only thirteen years old - she had the good fortune to meet and then make good friends with one of the greatest politicians in world history - Emperor Napoleon.
Before its appearance, both the island itself and life on it did not seem particularly pleasant to her, but after the arrival of the exiled emperor, everything radically changed. From a very young age, Betsy was told that Napoleon was a "monster with a burning eye in his forehead" - so at first she was seriously frightened by the news of his appearance, but over time, looking closely at each other, they became best friends. Elizabeth spent most of her free time in the company of the most famous prisoner in world history, she was interested with him, and he did not remain in debt, because only she was allowed to enter him without warning and simply called "Boni" - diminutively from Bonaparte, in turn, he tenderly called her "Betsy." Even when Napoleon moved to Longwood after a three-month stay at her father's estate, William Balkombe, their relationship did not end, and they forever broke up only in 1818, when the Balkombe family returned to England.
And then this unique book appeared - about how Napoleon was in ordinary life, and about how a young teenage girl and in the past the lord of half the world, playing, having fun and teasing each other, brightened up her life on a gloomy, stony, lost in the middle the piece of land of the vast Atlantic Ocean - the island of St. Helena - shared with us with these interesting and incredible memories is sometimes somewhat naive, but certainly sincerely - the friend of the great Napoleon Betsy - Lucia Elizabeth Balkomb Abel.